Bandlab as a social music platform

Rahul Maheshwari
4 min readOct 9, 2022

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Image Credits : bandlab.com

Bandlab, a social music platform that I think is pretty nifty. It’s a great way to discover new music, connect with other music lovers, and even share your own tunes with the world. “As the world’s popular social music creation platform, BandLab inspires networking and sharing within their briskly expanding community of music creators and music admirers, all excited and open to finding new music and artists,” the company said.

Make professional music with BandLab

To develop into a professional mastering engineer can take years but with Bandlab you can sound your finest at all times. You will get all the gizmos you need to show off your talent and the best part is BandLab won’t take any brownie points for it.

How do I get paid for making music through Bandlab ?

You can generate revenue from your music in a few ways through Bandlab: streaming royalties, selling band merchandise, and selling beats and samples.

To start generating streaming royalties, simply upload your original songs to Bandlab. Our users stream millions of tracks every day, so you can start earning money from your music right away. When a song is played, you’ll earn a percentage of the advertising revenue generated.

If you’re looking to sell band merchandise, you can create and list products on Bandlab’s merch store. You’ll be able to set your own prices and earn a commission on every sale.

Finally, if you produce beats or samples, you can sell them through our built-in beat store. Simply upload your beats or samples, set a price, and start selling!

“We want to advice the artists to monetize more. We’re building a regular income stream, recurring revenue that can aid them build a living based on their music,” explains Meng Ru Kuok, BandLab CEO. “We already gave an offer to the creators, a Tip Jar feature, to let fans reward creators they loved, and Albums, which let artists sell tracks straight to their fans, but these are one-time opportunities. Now we’re constructing out a sustainable way to guarantee legitimate revenue streams and thus support a improved creator economy.”

Subscriptions will let artists to offer exclusive material, such as posts, videos, and audio tracks, to subscribers in return for a monthly fee. Once they select their subscription price from an given range, artists can decide what to offer their fanbase and they will collect regular monthly payouts from BandLab, which lets artists to keep 100% of the subscription fee. This feature is now entering early approach, with a list of BandLab artists offering Subscriptions to kick off the launch. Attentive BandLab users can sign up, with plans to expand in the coming months.

How does Bandlab distribution work ?

Bandlab is a social music platform that allows users to share their music with others. The platform is available for free and users can share their music with anyone who has an account on the site. Bandlab also has a paid subscription service that allows users to share their music on Spotify.

With BandLab Distribution, Creators will now also be able to use BandLab to circulate the music they make on and off-platform straight to every major music platform like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, and more, thanks to a partnership with dominant music service provider Revelator. After an introductory early access period, the service will open up to the BandLab society, bringing accessible, economical distribution plans to independent artists worldwide via both mobile and desktop. Though music pros use the platform, BandLab is also home to thousands of the world’s underserved mobile-first music creators, artists whose work will likely be reaching global services for the first time.

Is Bandlab sounds copyright free ?

Copyright-free simply means that the artist who created the work has waived their copyright, or that the work itself is not eligible for copyright protection. Technically speaking, copyright-free music can be used without permission or license from the copyright owner.

That said, it’s important to note that most Bandlab sounds are not copyright-free. In order to use a sound on Bandlab, you will need to obtain a license from the copyright owner. Fortunately, we have a team of dedicated licensing experts who can help you navigate the process and secure the necessary permissions.

If you’re interested in using a sound on Bandlab, but are not sure if it’s copyright-free, please contact its team at support@bandlab.com and we they will be happy to assist you.

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Rahul Maheshwari
Rahul Maheshwari

Written by Rahul Maheshwari

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